The Middle East – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 6

Zachary Ugolnik

The Collective Self

Reveals a conception of selfhood in Byzantine and Middle-Eastern sources that is fundamentally collective rather than merely individual, challenging Western-centric narratives of the modern self and enric…

Riad Sattouf,

The End of the Arab of the Future

Riad is a teenager growing up in the French region of Brittany, where he lives with his mother and brother and attends high school in Rennes. But his adolescence is anything but typical. Born to a Syrian …

Fawaz A. Gerges

The Great Betrayal

How the Middle East can achieve political change and social progressThe Middle East is in upheaval: a widening chasm between state and society, the failure of governing elites to address citizens' genuine…

Tom Segev,

1967

Wie der Sechstagekrieg die Welt verändert hatTom Segev schildert Ursachen, Verlauf und Auswirkungen des Sechstagekriegs, den Israel im Juni 1967 mit seinen arabischen Nachbarstaaten führte. Er zeichnet di…

The Arab Nahda as Popular Entertainment

"What was popular entertainment like for everyday Arab societies in Middle Eastern cities during the long nineteenth century? In what ways did cafâe culture, theatre, illustrated periodicals, cinema,…

Oren Kessler

Palestine 1936

"Kessler's history is key to understanding the current situation between Israelis and Palestinians." ---Booklist, Starred Review Palestine 1936 chronicles the 1936--1939 Great Arab Revolt, a sem…

Michael Driessen

The Global Politics of Interreligious Dialogue

Over the last thirty years, governments across the globe have formalized new relationships with religious communities through their domestic and foreign policies and have variously sought to manage, suppo…

Oren Kessler

Palestine 1936

2024 Winner, Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, The Sami Rohr Jewish Literary Institute One of the Wall Street Journal's 10 Best Books of 2023 Named a Booklist Editors' Choice in History: Adult Books,…

Billie Jeanne Brownlee, Maziyar Ghiabi

States Without People

States Without People argues that the major consequence of the failed revolts and civil wars in the Middle East has been the emergence of a culture of the right.

Michelle Tusan

The Last Treaty

In The Last Treaty, Michelle Tusan profoundly reshapes the story of how the First World War ended in the Middle East. Tracing Europe's war with the Ottoman Empire through to the signing of Lausanne, which…

S. O. D.

Live At Budokan

Hooshmand Alizadeh, Selda Tuncer, Josef Kohlbacher, Sonya Karami

Women's Empowerment Through Public Space

This book explores the transformative power of urban public space for women's empowerment. Addressing a critical gap in the existing literature, the authors develop an empirically grounded methodology to …

The Residents

Eskimo (Expanded Edition)

Susan N. Platt

Around the World in Twenty-Five Years

Spanning from central China to the southern tip of Latin America, the artists discussed here address crucial issues of war, feminism, climate, detention, migration, and, above all, human rights. They crea…

Paulina Banas

Visualizing Egypt

"Bonaparte's short-lived 1798 campaign in Egypt, new possibilities of travel, and improvements in printing technology in nineteenth-century France and Britain, a new publishing business dedicated to …

Daniel E Zoughbie

Kicking the Hornet's Nest

The compelling, groundbreaking investigation of how the choices of twelve US presidents, from Truman to Trump, have fueled turbulence and turmoil in the Middle East. And the one president who chose a bett…

Desmond Dekker

King Of Ska: The Beverley's Records Singles Collection 1963 - 1967

1963 sprach ein 21-jähriger Schweißer, der davon träumte, hauptberuflich Singer-Songwriter zu werden, bei einem der neuen jamaikanischen Elite-Schallplattenproduzenten vor, Leslie Kong, dem Besitzer des k…

Jason Brownlee

Force Without Authority

Force Without Authority explores why the United States' costliest military operations since Vietnam came up short and pushed Republican and Democratic leaders toward withdrawal and retrenchment. Covering …

Catherine Nixon Cooke

Dodgers to Damascus

David Lesch is a modern-day Renaissance man whose work has spanned continents and allowed him to explore cultures near and far. An acclaimed scholar, educator, author, and conflict resolution specialist, …